{"id":45,"date":"2008-07-25T18:30:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-07-25T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:30:24","slug":"seo-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2008\/07\/seo-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two days, I&#8217;ve been exposed to two SEO scams.<\/p>\n<p>One company offers first place ranking in Google for \u00c2\u00a3650. Their small print says that if this doesn&#8217;t happen they&#8217;ll refund you but keep an admin fee of \u00c2\u00a375. What&#8217;s more, their &#8220;first place&#8221; seems to be in sponsored ads not organic results. You can buy those yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The second was a phone call saying that they had a spare place on the first page of Google for &#8220;insert relevant keywords here&#8221;. I thought wow, who is this guy? Does he actually run Google? Because I hear that they don&#8217;t exactly need the money.<\/p>\n<p>For any of you who are in the dark, let me make this absolutely clear: <em><strong>no one<\/strong><\/em> can guarantee you <em><strong>any<\/strong><\/em> place in the search rankings for <em><strong>any<\/strong><\/em> keywords.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Google&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35291\">guidelines<\/a> on this. (Scroll down to <strong>No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two days, I&#8217;ve been exposed to two SEO scams. One company offers first place ranking in Google for \u00c2\u00a3650. Their small print says that if this doesn&#8217;t happen they&#8217;ll refund you but keep an admin fee of \u00c2\u00a375. What&#8217;s more, their &#8220;first place&#8221; seems to be in sponsored ads not organic results. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[56,20,57,58,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}